Sure, close doesn't count and all the statewide Democratic candidates went down to defeat. But it was the party's best showing since Democrats actually had won statewide races in Texas. But there was a reason for the Democrats to celebrate in the aftermath ...

Texas Democrats have long viewed the state’s growing Latino population as their ticket to eventually breaking through the Republican Party’s dominance. Tuesday night, however, showed that the GOP has made significant gains in peeling away those voters,

Trump soundly defeated Harris in 12 of 14 Texas counties touching the border. Concerns over immigration only partly explain it.